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hirezOff to furn parts tomorrow and I get a dose of the Lurgi. Oh well, better living through chemistry.
(Sentence construction and attention-span also shot. Not good.)
Meanwhile, via the resurrected SevList: Aavikko.
There's a Peel Session, which is especially fine in the psych-pop AmigaDemo style. (In that it sometimes sounds like in-game music written by people who'd been listening to the Doors and watching seventies US cop shows, and sometimes I expect some random message in an impossible font to come sine-scrolling across my screen.
Now, see, here's an interesting thing. I wouldn't like to say that the musical form of the AmigaDemo (and presumably ST, C64 et al) existed in isolation. It is pretty much bip-bop synthpop of the type generated on limited hardware (Depeche Mode sounded like they did because they were doing it on monosynths), after all. So the influences had to come from somewhere.
Yet it sounded like nothing else available in the UK at that time.
Fast-forward a few years (ok, about ten) and ver g*thscene is going bonkers for this synthpop stuff that sounds like the old Demoscene stuff I used to listen to.
I don't know where I'm going with this, other than to point out (as if it were news) that there seems to be a pile of interesting music that's ignored by the UK meejah. LIke I said, sentence construction and attention-span completely buggered.
(Sentence construction and attention-span also shot. Not good.)
Meanwhile, via the resurrected SevList: Aavikko.
There's a Peel Session, which is especially fine in the psych-pop AmigaDemo style. (In that it sometimes sounds like in-game music written by people who'd been listening to the Doors and watching seventies US cop shows, and sometimes I expect some random message in an impossible font to come sine-scrolling across my screen.
Now, see, here's an interesting thing. I wouldn't like to say that the musical form of the AmigaDemo (and presumably ST, C64 et al) existed in isolation. It is pretty much bip-bop synthpop of the type generated on limited hardware (Depeche Mode sounded like they did because they were doing it on monosynths), after all. So the influences had to come from somewhere.
Yet it sounded like nothing else available in the UK at that time.
Fast-forward a few years (ok, about ten) and ver g*thscene is going bonkers for this synthpop stuff that sounds like the old Demoscene stuff I used to listen to.
I don't know where I'm going with this, other than to point out (as if it were news) that there seems to be a pile of interesting music that's ignored by the UK meejah. LIke I said, sentence construction and attention-span completely buggered.
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Date: 2005-12-15 02:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-15 03:18 pm (UTC)You know, I think I've finally forgotten the various versions of Soundtracker we used. There was the Karsten Obarski original that came in brown and didn't really work on an A2000 + HD, then there were several versions of Protracker... And Oktalyzer, and...
... I think my anorak is showing...
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Date: 2005-12-15 03:50 pm (UTC)I used OctaMED for the music, but only 4 out of the 8 channels due to OctaMED being crap in 8ch mode. I think I'll fire it all up at the weekend and transfer some old tunes onto my laptop :D
Hang on, I think my Peter Storm is dry now ;)
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Date: 2005-12-15 03:57 pm (UTC)Think I still have my Technosound turbo, and I got an Audioengineer too which is still kicking around. Shall have to hook them up again.
I had a very early version of MED from an Amiga User disk, then followed MED all the way through really. Oktalyzer was ok. Didn't like Octamed at all really. One of my old demo crew put some of my old tracks up on a website last year! Aaaargh. *dies of embaressment*
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Date: 2005-12-15 04:00 pm (UTC)I wish I'd kept all my old Amiga disks now but having over 1000 floppies about the place was a pain... I used to get 4-5 jiffy bags a week stuffed full of games and demos...
I'd just love to read all old old LSD Grapevine diskmags again and see my crappy old music reviews ;)
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Date: 2005-12-15 03:58 pm (UTC)Hahaha. I used to be known as Slammer in those days. :)
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Date: 2005-12-15 04:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-15 04:19 pm (UTC)Oh well.
(Sampling off CD? You young people, I dunno. In my day, we taped random B-Movies off the telly at 2AM or ran Tackhead records into the PortaOne.)
(And then discovered The Very Things had used the same film.)
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Date: 2005-12-15 04:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-15 03:53 pm (UTC)What is big now? I'm going to suggest that the 1940's will feature largely in the next year or so. I think in fashion especially so musically, hmm, something glamorous. Psuedo sophisticated.
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Date: 2005-12-15 04:09 pm (UTC)However, I suspect there's an unspoken 'to me' to be tagged on the end of that last sentence.
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Date: 2005-12-15 04:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-12-15 04:36 pm (UTC)Jolly good show, what!
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Date: 2005-12-15 04:59 pm (UTC)Cor - Spaceballs SoTA!
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Date: 2005-12-15 11:42 pm (UTC)S'mazing what you can find on the web, innit ;)
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Date: 2005-12-15 11:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-16 02:11 am (UTC)That was rather fun. Like cool 70s funk meets anytime shite g*ff. Spot the redundant word, BTW.
And JP making an improper suggestion to Mary Anne Hobbs (sp?): how about "shove your head up your *rse and suffocate, you nauseating sycophant"?